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New IFPMA Corporate Brochure - Committed to a Healthier Future

We hope you find this brochure informative to gain better understanding of the contributions of our industry. We are passionate about the role we play in finding effective and sustainable solutions to today’s most pressing health concerns and look forward to continuing the dialogue with our partners

IFPMA HEALTH PARTNERSHIPS DIRECTORY

IFPMA hosts the Health Partnerships Directory, a continuously expanding online database that allows users to view, in depth, health partnerships from across the world that involve the research-based biopharmaceutical industry.

The Role of Partnerships in Incentivizing Innovation to combat AMR

IFPMA @ preICDRA 2016

IFPMA in Brief

IFPMA represents the research-based pharmaceutical companies and associations across the globe. The research-based pharmaceutical industry’s 2 million employees research, develop and provide medicines and vaccines that improve the life of patients worldwide. Based in Geneva, IFPMA has official relations with the United Nations and contributes industry expertise to help the global health community find solutions that improve global health.

Tackling Global health challenges

Boosting Innovation and Access

The research-based biopharmaceutical industry is thinking creatively about its innovation and business models to meet new challenges, and is working in collaboration with different players from the scientific community.

Strengthening Regulatory Systems

Building trust

The healthcare community and the public must be confident that research-based biopharmaceutical industry and their employees, wherever they operate, communicate and act in an ethical and professional manner.

The session that took place at 2016 GHF ‘Shaping a sound supply chain ecosystem’ gathered speakers from BMS, IFPW Walgreens Boots Alliance, ICRC and WHO. Moderated by Scrip’s Sukaina Virji. To find out more about the complexities of the pharmaceutical supply chain, to hear what experts think are the essential...

Brazzaville/Kigali, 11 May 2016 – Ongoing efforts to prevent and control cervical cancer in the African Region have received a significant boost following the announcement of a pioneering partnership between the World Health Organization African Region (WHO AFRO) and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA). The...

ABPI, EFPIA and IFPMA issue joint statement following publication of the final report by the Review on AMR The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) have today issued a joint...

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There are many challenges in improving public health policy for current and future generations. To play an effective role in advancing these policies, the research-based biopharmaceutical industry needs an informed and credible voice in the conversation with the global health community. That voice is IFPMA.

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Please click on the image above for this must watch video! It’s universally agreed that patients should be able to expect medicines and vaccines to be available when they need them. Yet in some parts of the world, access to high-quality, safe, and efficient treatments can be a cumbersome/awkward walk through many, sometimes fatal, stumbling blocks. To take just one example, it’s estimated that...

“This piece was posted as an exclusive for GEN” Vaccines are considered one of the most successful and cost-effective public health interventions, protecting us from many infectious and childhood diseases. In fact, over the past 50 years, vaccines have saved more lives worldwide than any other medical product or procedure. Being complex biological products, vaccine marketing authorization applications and production follow strict regulatory and manufacturing requirements....

Pharmacists’ role in flu prevention According to recent World Health Organization (WHO) data, in South America flu and other respiratory viruses declined in most countries. Overall, taking the flu shot is the best way to avoid the flu. When fewer people get the vaccine, the virus spreads more quickly, meaning more people are exposed to it and eventually puts vulnerable people at risk. As part of a...